Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-12-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

programme for the election of successor
to NJ. Grevy.
The oil well at Cygnet O.. the great est
| gusher in the Oh 10 field, which caught TIRE
| recently, burned until the 30th, when the
flames were extinguished- 1t is estimat-
ed that $4,000 barrels of oil were con-
sumed.
IT is said the Standard Oil Company
| contemplate building a pipe line from
Chicago, through the Ohio and Pennsyl-
yania oil fields, to New York City.
THE police of Newark, N. j., are con.
WINGED that serious trouble with the an
archistic element is only matter of time.
and will develop as soon as labor strike
of any magnitude occurs.
THE commanders ofthe different French
army corps have received sealed instruc-
tions which they are to open in the event
of an outbreak following the election of
new President
THE st. Petersburg police raided lodg-
ing. house ON the Both, in the Peski quarter,
occupied by students who were supposed
to be Nihilists. A desperate resistance
was made by the inmates of the house,
and many persons were wounded
CONGRESSMAN MCSHANE, of Nebraska,
is many times millionaire, and will keep
up large establishment in Washington.
He made his money in mining enterprises
and sound real estate investments in
Omaha and elsewhere, and has the repu-
tation of being one of the solid men of the
West.
IRISH Nationalist papers assert that the
Unionist meeting at Dublin ON the night
of the Goth was not a representative gath
ering, as no one was allowed to attend
without securing ticket from the man
agement.
THE Iowa Soldiers Home, the bill for
which passed the Legis lature two years
ago, resulting in its location at Marshall
town, after q struggle between sixteen
leading towns of the State, was dedi-
Gated on the 30th, and was opened De-
cember for occupants.
THE flow of gas that was struck re-
Gently at Princeton, Ind, at the depth of
625 feet was cased off and the drilling
began on the Goth to secure a greater flow,
and after drilling ten feet deeper, at noon
of the 30th, struck a new gusher at the
depth of 635 feet.
THE doorkeepership contest is really the
only fight in Washington connected with
the House organiza ton around which
there is any doubt. Mr.. Donelson's reply
to the charges preferred against him by
Mr.. Breckenridge, of Arkansas, has fur
nished a prolific topic of discussion.
Messrs. Hurt and Nichols are still in the
race.
AT Cincinnati, on the morning of the
LIST, a general fire alarm was sounded,
calling the entire fire department to the
Strobridge Lithographing Company's
great building. The flames devoured the
entire building, and in less than forty
minutes the walls fell in. The loss is
total, and will probably be 5000, 200.
JAKE SHARPE, the New York boodler,
has been released on $4,000 bail.
a STATUE of the late President Garfield
was unvailed at Cincinnati on the 1st
with appropriate ceremonies.
A SHOCK of earthquake was felt in por
tons of England ON the 1st.
QUEEN REGENT CHRISTINA opened the
Spanish Cortes on the 1st.
JAMES H. MCGINDLEY, sixty-two years
old, was sentenced in the United States
Court at Clevel and, o., on the 1st, to ten
years Imprisonment for forging PEN
sion certificates.
REPRESENTATIVE FORD, who represents
the Grand Rapids district of Michigan, is
one of the younger members of the Fiji
tieth Congress and is quite handsome
and able man.
CANADIAN yachtsmen are preparing to
build yacht to compete next year for
the Americas cup.
A LYNCHING took place at Alamosa,
Col, on the 1st, tramp named O'Brien
being the victim. He had committed an
assault upon a young lady.
MOST REVEREND DANIEL NcGETTIGAN,
DID,, Archbishop of Armagh and primate
of Ireland, was reported dying on the 1st.
JAMES E. QUINN, master workman of
District Assembly 49, K. of L., New York,
was arrested on the 1st to answer
charge of having assaulted a reporter of
the Tribune. Quinn pushed the reporter
down stairs.
PRESIDENT GREvY complicated French
matters ON the LIST by withdrawing his
resignation. He promised to resign on the
I'd. There was much excitement in Paris,
but no serious disturbance.
DESPITE the order to the press of Russia
not to attack Germany, the newspapers
cont inue to print hostile criticisms on the
disclosures made regarding the interview
between the Gar and Bismarck.
A CRAZY German, supposed to be John
Schwartz, was arrested at Lima, O., on
the 1st. He raves continually of the
Anarchists, and says that he will "make
it hot" for Governor Oglesby, and call
men who have blood on their hands will
have trouble"
REPRESENTATIVE BRECKENRIDGE, OF Ar
kansas, had an interview with Doorkeeper
Donelson, on the LIST, in his office at the
Capitol in Washington. Mr.. Donelsou
declined to state the nature Of the inter.
view, but from what could be learned the
meeting between the gentlemen was not
of the most amicable character.
ALEXANDER TAYLOR, a red-cheeked,
blue-eyed, ingenuous-looking Eng lishman,
twenty-on one years old, came from London
to New York seven weeks ago, got into
the post-office service a month later, and
is now locked up in Ludlow Street Jail for
stealing letters from the mails.
Mr.. SEXTON was unanimously elected
Lord Mayor of Dublin on the 1st, to sue
coed Mr.. Sullivan. In speech thanking
the corporation for the honor conferred
upon him, he said that every day devel
oped new attacks upon the lives and lib
critics of the people.
FIRE in New York tenement house on
the morning of the 1st caused a panic
among it's inmates. All escaped unin-
jured except Joseph Jacobs, aged five,
who was burned to death. The damage to
the building amounted to $4,000.
A MAN giving the name of Arthur
O'Keefe told a story to a Philadelphia
saloon keeper, on the 1st, in which he de-
clared himself the murderer of Octavus
Cato. The murder was committed during
an election riot in the spring of 1871, and
owing to the prominence of Cato, who
was the leader of the colored mon, caused
great excitement. O'Keefe was arrested.
FOLLOWING is an epitome Of the public
debt statement issued on the LIST: Total
debt, principal and interest, 81 ,675. S16,660;
debt, less cash in the treasury, ST. ,295, ALL
1853; increase of debt during November,
ST., 490, $50; decrease since June 30. 1887.